Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

Technology doesn’t just evolve—it replaces. What was groundbreaking a few decades ago can now feel ancient. For younger ...

Every day, hundreds of unique inventions designed to solve pressing human problems and make our lives easier, appear. However ...

Nuclear power has caused some serious disasters throughout the world. Is it a modern phenomenon, or is there evidence of its existence in the ancient world? The worst nuclear disaster in the United ...

GD is working with Epirus on the TRX Leonidas system, which uses microwaves to blast swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles. In a demonstration that would surely make their namesakes proud, a ...

Researchers have identified ice XXI, a newly discovered form of ice that forms under extreme compression and may reveal how water behaves deep within icy moons. (Artist’s concept). Credit: Stock ...

Eyeglasses are an essential tool for thousands of people across the globe. Unfortunately, glasses didn’t always exist, which caused difficulties for those in the ancient past with poor vision. However ...

A team at the University at Buffalo has made it possible to simulate complex quantum systems without needing a supercomputer. By expanding the truncated Wigner approximation, they’ve created an ...

Scientists have pinpointed Y1 receptor neurons in the brain that can override chronic pain signals when survival instincts like hunger or fear take precedence. Acting like a neural switchboard, these ...

Welcome to the era of fakery. The widespread use of instant video generators like Sora will bring an end to visuals as proof. By Brian X. Chen Brian X. Chen is The Times’s lead consumer technology ...

MIT and Harvard scientists have created engineered CAR-NK cells that can hide from the immune system and more effectively destroy cancer. The cells are designed to suppress immune-rejection signals ...

Their performance at the Barbican’s Milton Court concert hall transported the audience into a space in which boundaries were erased, and hearts open full-wide. The members of the trio are all three ...